Liz Smith (journalist) - Natural blonde (2000)

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A memoir is an exercise in vulgarity, candor, excess, and overkill.

Liz Smith

Gossip is one of the great luxuries of a democracy. It is the tawdry jewel in the crown of free speech and free expression. You don't read gossip columns in dictatorships.

Liz Smith

Gossip is for leisure, for fun, for entertainment, for relaxation. Should the day come when we are enduring big, black headlines about war, famine, terrorism, and natural disaster — then that kind of news will drive gossip underground and out of sight. Then, we won't have gossip to kick around any longer.

Liz Smith